This new feature works perfectly.
2 questions however:
1) is it doable to add iso-8859-2 detection as well? Iso-8859-2 files are currently being detected as 1250. The coding is really verry similar.
2) Sometimes this testing build of AkelPad crashes for me. I have got older slovak language module thus it displays update warning at each startup. Then after I dismiss that, it sometimes crashes but it does not happen all the time.

1) if you are not going to add it. Do you think it can be implemented as a plugin? I don't think so but I'd be sure.
2) Yes as soon as I hit ok button on the prompt saying my language module should be updated it sometimes crashes. But it only crashes if I am opening a file if I'm just clicking desktop shortcut opening the empty aklepad window it does not crash.
Can you possibly build a debug version or is there another way I can help you to track it?

I'm unable to reproduce this now. I have been trying hard about 15 minutes. If it crashes again I'll post it.
Oh BTW it's completelly unrelated but... how do I access statusbr format settings? I don't seem to be able to reach it using keyboard only.